Lantern.



UNITED STATES Patented October 6, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W. DRESSEL ANDRQBERT BLACK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE DRESSEL RAILWAY LAMP WORKS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LANTERN.

srnolrienrron formingpart of LettersPatent No. 740,974., dated October 6, 1903.

Application filed April 5, 1902.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK W. Duns- SEL and ROBERT BLACK, citizens of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.-

Our invention relates especially to the construction and arrangementbf hinges employed upon lanterns or lamps and devices of a kindred nature, and has for its object the provision of a simple, cheap, and effective hinge adapted to form a part of the mechanism for movably holding the parts of a construction wherewith it is employed in place.

To attain the desired end, our invention consists, essentially, in a hinge one member whereof is arranged for rigidly securing to one portion of a device wherewith it is to be employed and the other member for movably.v

securing it to the other portion of thedevice, and our invention also involves certain novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts and peculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lamp or lantern top wherewith our invention is employed, showing the hinge in position; and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, showing the side opposite to the hinge. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section at line a: as of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a like view at line 0; a of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals of reference wherever they occur ind icate corresponding parts in all horizontal slot 3.

5 is a rivet the inner extremity whereof is arranged to enter an indentation 4 in the cap 2, said rivet being fixed in the body 1.

6 is the upper member of the hinge, secured to the top 2 at 7.

8 is the pintle of the hinge, constructed in Serial No. 101,539, (No model.)

the usual manner. 9 is the other member of the hinge.

10 represents rivets which pass through the member 9 of the hinge, a guide-piece 11, fitting in the slot 3, and an interior plate 12, which extends entirely over the slot 3.

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoing description, the operation of our invention is as follows: The parts being all assembled and arranged as aboveset forth, in order to close the movable part or cap and secure the same in place it is re 'tated toward the left, bringing the lower member of the hinge relative to the slot 3 to I the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and the rivet 5 to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 4:, permitting the complete depression of the cap to its seat upon the body 1. By now rotating the cap toward the left the lower member of the hinge will slide in the slot 3 and the inner endof the rivet 5 in the indentation 4, firmly holding the cap 2 in place upon the body 1. In order to release the catch, the reverse movement is required, turning the cap toward the right, when it maybe thrown back upon the hinge in the usual manner.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a lantern, the combination with the lantern-top having one member of a non-separable hinge rigidly secured thereto, of a lantern-body having the second hinge member movably mounted thereon, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

2. In alantern, the combination'with a nonseparable hinge having one member rigidly secured to the lantern top or cap, and a second hinge member movably mounted in a slot in a lantern-body, of a catch upon the opposite side of the cap and body adapted and arranged to be engaged and disengaged by the partial rotation of the cap, substantially as shown and described.

Signed by us at New York this 28th dayo March, 1902.

Witnesses:

DAVID L. WOODALL, FLOYD K. Pmcnsnr. 

